BillStrong

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by BillStrong 16d ago
TrueNAS Scale is Linux based, but Core is FreeBSD based, and is the product they made for storage purposes before they made scale.
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by BillStrong 16d ago
There was a card just detailed on Hot Chips that used a whole bunch of RISC-V CPUs on 2nm to run at 1.8GHz, but really low power, for compute on a CXL card that could also have SSDs for cached storage. So, don't assume they would crank
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by BillStrong 16d ago
I mean, why would we wait til then? AMD is buying a company that put LLama 3.1 7b(or something close) on silicon, and can give you 15k t/s, Qwen just released Qwen 3.8 Next that seperates the intelligence from the database, so the inte
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by BillStrong 16d ago
There is a project to use the Snow Leopard kernel and open source components and some bits from the prerelease Snow Leopard on PPC to create a working PPC Snow Leopard. I wonder if something like that might be a short term viable path to ge
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by BillStrong 16d ago
Also, Mac is a moving target. Each year, there is a new version that is basically its own little snowflake, with older things deprecated and newer things added. Windows 11 will still run Windows apps from Windows 3.1, because they have a ba
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by BillStrong 16d ago
Hardware acceleration for OS X era OSes, for one.
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by BillStrong 16d ago
VMs with GPU passed through. You can get Mac compatible GPUs that will work, look for the Dortania OpenCore guide GPU lists to find one that works for the version of Mac OS X it runs on. Looking on Macintosh Repository, that game will run o
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by BillStrong 17d ago
Did they release their code under the GPL? FreeBSD is not GPL licensed, its 2 clause BSD licensed, so this wouldn't apply to that portion.
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by BillStrong 18d ago
And you could still use the unexec method until this very latest release a few days ago, if you didn't want the pdumper.
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by BillStrong 18d ago
Emacs does this to create its image with all the added functionality above the minimum required to run elisp, then has a mechanism to pull in text files because elisp is just text anyway. They just chucked the old system for a portable vers
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by BillStrong 20d ago
The AMD Zen 6 line is targeting 7GHz in the upcoming releases, on 2nm, so......
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
That is a relatively simple system. It cuts out use cases. For instance, history, newer information is mixed with older authoritative information. The same thing for religious institutions, where the older items may be the more authoritativ
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Already predicting which versions to avoid, huh.
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Yes, much higher computation required to encode it, and decode it, both.
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
It is still ironic to me that my Steam Deck has decode AV1 acceleration, on a really old CPU/GPU combo.
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Essentially all of the processing of the video data, barring the container format which the CPU uses to know what part of the data to send to the GPU or the Audio chip or codec. And HW acceleration is generally a preset baked in version of
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Yes and no. It is just Zig, but that is the advantage. And compiling it to an special function that could work as an end seems to be a doable thing, so you would just have to have the compiler in your agent.
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
They work better for coding workloads. Essentially, the more regular the output, the more the faster model gets right, the less the big model has to do. Writing tends to have more false positives. I haven't tried this particular one, h
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
It does to an extent. One thing I will give AI, because of the nature of LLMs, you are essentially arguing with the median level of the input that trained the model. So, for someone new to the subject, you get access to patterns that will b
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
As long as you don't keep calling out to the CPU, that is. Tool calling, searches, cache movement if used, and even debug steps all stall the GPU waiting for the CPU. There was a test of turning one of the under 1B Qwen3+ models into a
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Even in humans, negative stimuli carries more weight than positive, in the general case. Without reading it yet, my first thought would be to test a general ratio, something similar to human interpersonal relationship ratios like 30% negati
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Look on HuggingFace, there is a template that is supposed to fix the updates for the Qwen Models. https://huggingface.co/froggeric/Qwen-Fixed-Chat-Templates Maybe will help you?
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
I think the article misses the actual point? The browser is faster because they went native, in particular, GPU. Every issue described is text rendering related. Everyone. And I would bet most of the SwiftUI issues could be solved with a te
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by BillStrong 4mo ago
Have you thought about Zig? If you limit it to CompTime, isn't that just a scripting language that happens to be compiled to binary?